I have put alot of different DVD and CD burners through their paces
with linux here at my work.
Plextor CD/DVD drives are a bit pricier, and the highest quality that I
have seen. Usually the plextor drives we have here survive longer than
the motherboards and power supplies of the boxes they are in. But most
drives that I have played around with work well enough.
Sony drives work very well, also. Lite-On also works very well. In
the "bad old days", it was a crapshoot if the burners would work with
linux. Now, since so much work went into cdrecord surrounding the
ATAPI interface (no more ide-scsi), burners are more likely to work
than not.
My recommendation is that if you're burning 1000s of cd's (like we do
here at work), buy a plextor. If your usage is a bit more casual, just
about any drive should work fine for you.
If you're worried that a drive won't work, try bringing a knoppix disc
to the store you're thinking of buying from, boot a floor model from
knoppix and do a 'cdrecord -scanbus'. If the drive shows up, most
likely it will work with any distro you choose.
Oh, and btw, I would suggest using 'growisofs' over 'cdrecord' for
burning DVD's.
Here is a little crappy script that I use to burn DVD isos:
<begin>
#!/bin/bash
if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
/usr/bin/growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=$1
eject
read -p "- hit enter when ready -"
eject -t
else
echo "usage: burndvd [isofile]"
fi
<end>
Just make sure that if your DVD drive isn't /dev/hdc, change that part
of the script to reflect the real device name of your drive.
Burning CD's with linux is so much more reliable than everything else I
have tried. With windows (this was almost 7 years ago with a ancient
version of Roxio), we were getting about a 20% failure rate. With
linux (and the same hardware), we get under 1% failure rate. Although
my experience with windows cd burning has improved, it's nowhere near
the reliability of growisofs/mkisofs/cdrecord.
Best of luck and I hope that helps out!
--jan
--- Ryan <cjg5ehir02@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 July 2006 01:39 pm, Bob Scofield
> scofield-at-omsoft.com
> |lugod| wrote:
> > I need a new CD burner. In the past a lot of folks have
> recommended
> > Plextor for Linux. That's what I have now. Do people still think
> Plextor
> > is a good recommendation for a Linux machine?
>
> Plextor drives are VERY nice. I've got a plextor DVD burner, and
> i've never
> had any problems with it. I've also had very good luck with Lite-On
> drives.
> Lite-On drives are probably the best value.
>
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